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La Battaglia continua

PUK | 02.04.2009 21:21

Building grass root resistance.

I hope we can build on the spirit of resistance yesterday and dont let the police tactics with the support of the darlings in the media demoralise our resistance or drive a wedge between us.

We must organise not just protests like yesterday but build links with the many, many workers, individuals and communities struggling in these economic times.

Another world is indeed possible we all know that, so lets get on with building it.

You cant overthrow the system, The state and it apparatus expect this and are very well geared up for it. But what the system would'nt be able to deal with people just walking away from it.

Unite and make links with those in your community, It's a cliché but united we are strong and the state knows this, which is why it trys to keep us apart with fear. Fear of terrorism, fear of the dark, fear of hoodies, fear of your next door neighbour and now fear of loosing your job, home etc.

Everyone talks about the success of the poll tax riot - whilst it had its purpose the real resistance was in the organising we carried out in our own communities, advice on court trials, bailiff busting, demos around the country including Scotland 12 months before it came south of the border.
The newsagent at the end of my street which acted as a sort of make shift advice workshop was full of anarchist literature that people would actual read as they saw what anarchism and activism was.
Had we anarchists just went to London on that day in march without lots of working and building resistance within our own communities and linking with networks throughout the Ku there would have been nowhere near the numbers of organised and committed people walking away from the states rule not just on the day in London, but everyday by refusing to pay the tax or the fines for none payment.

We can do it again.
people have a fear that loosing their job is the end of everything, well it is not its merely another instilled fear to keeps us enslaved to the wages they pay.
Lets organise as repossessions are rising but no-one is buying empty properties are going to stand empty, lets get them opened up and housing ppl.
If those that are in the position of loosing their home, changed the locks and declared squatters rights-would that be ok, if so and many people knew it imagine how good that would be - and if not well what is? must be something!
Scum-bag debt collectors and loan sharks individually we are intimated by them, collectively though we could run them outer town.

There is loads we can do, The system needs us to be isolated and to try and cope as an isolated individual perhaps involving no more than a few close friends and family to help us out in the crisis. Yet loads of ppl are going through this if we come together to tackle the same issues collectively Together we are strong and if we can build up our communities again and help real people in their real lives and show them the real working alternatives to capitalism then the next time we march on London the numbers could be well into the 100 000 plus and we may well Really Storm the Banks



PUK

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